Chris Roussin, PhD, is Senior Director, Applied Learning for Performance and Safety (ALPS), at the Center for Medical Simulation, Associate Professor of Health Professions Education.
Chris creates partnerships within complex healthcare organizations to support sustainable and culture-changing programs based in experiential learning and positive communication, collaboration and feedback approaches. Chris led the original efforts to develop the Circle Up system of briefing, debriefing and peer support activities that has now been implemented at hospitals around the world. Before CMS, Chris served as Learning and Development Director for the Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program. His academic works on the subjects of teamwork, learning and psychological safety appear in top healthcare and management journals including Academic Medicine and Journal of Management.
Contact: [email protected]
Course Faculty:
Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing
Media:
Publications:
SimZones: An Organizational Innovation for Simulation Programs and Centers. Academic Medicine. 2017 08; 92(8):1114-1120. PMID: 28562455.
Readiness planning: how to go beyond “buy-in” to achieve curricular success and front-line performance. Advances in Simulation, 2025. 9. 10.1186/s41077-024-00317-z.
Teaching, coaching, or debriefing With Good Judgment: a roadmap for implementing “With Good Judgment” across the SimZones. Advances in Simulation. 2022 Nov 26; 7(1):39. PMID: 36435851; PMCID: PMC9701361.
Acoustic analysis of surgeons’ voices to assess change in the stress response during surgical in situ simulation. BMJ Simulation Technology Enhanced Learning. 2021; 7(6):471-477. PMID: 35520977; PMCID: PMC8936944.
“Ready SIM Go”: An Adapted Simulation “Service Line” for Patients and Caregivers. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 2021 Apr 01; 16(2):120-127. PMID: 32218091.
Assessing competency using simulation: the SimZones approach. BMJ Simulation Technology Enhanced Learning. 2020; 6(5):262-267. PMID: 35517396; PMCID: PMC8936917.
Simulation capacity building in rural Indian hospitals: a 1-year follow-up qualitative analysis. BMJ Simulation Technology Enhanced Learning. 2021; 7(3):140-145. PMID: 35518561; PMCID: PMC8936633.
“This Is How Hard It Is”. Family Experience of Hospital-to-Home Transition with a Tracheostomy. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 07; 17(7):860-868. PMID: 32267725; PMCID: PMC7328176.
Maximizing Plastic Surgery Education Impact: Lessons from Resident Learning Styles and Experiential Learning Theory. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2019 Jul; 7(7):e2252. PMID: 31942326; PMCID: PMC6952154.
Self-Confidence in Endotracheal Intubation Among Pediatric Interns: Associations With Gender, Experience, and Performance. Acad Pediatr. 2019 Sep – Oct; 19(7):822-827. PMID: 31229695.
Bridging the Stressful Gap Between ICU and Home: Medical Simulation for Pediatric Patients and Their Families. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 04; 20(4):e221-e224. PMID: 30664592.
Improved Safety and Cost Savings from Reductions in Cast-Saw Burns After Simulation-Based Education for Orthopaedic Surgery Residents. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2017 Sep 06; 99(17):e94. PMID: 28872536.
Development of a Standardized Kalamazoo Communication Skills Assessment Tool for Radiologists: Validation, Multisource Reliability, and Lessons Learned. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Aug; 209(2):351-357. PMID: 28537754.
Creation of a novel simulator for minimally invasive neurosurgery: fusion of 3D printing and special effects. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2017 Jul; 20(1):1-9. PMID: 28438070.
Going the extra mile and feeling energized: An enrichment perspective of organizational citizenship behaviors. J Appl Psychol. 2016 Mar; 101(3):379-91. PMID: 26595756.
Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine treatment in patients with acute uncomplicated Falciparum malaria in Mayotte, a French collectivity of the Comoros Archipelago. Parasite. 2004 Sep; 11(3):325-8. PMID: 15490758.